Country walks and the Ashdown Forest

Hill Cottage is situated on the very edge of Crowborough with a number of country walks available virtually from the doorstep. It is just a couple of miles from the lovely Ashdown Forest, where you will find open grazing, heathland, ancient iron workings, windmill, tumbledown stone mills, and of course all it’s associations to Winnie the Pooh.

The Coast

 The coast is little more than half an hour away at Brighton, with it’s myriad attractions; Eastbourne, which has a wonderful air show each August; and Hastings, home to the largest beach based fishing fleet in Britain and the cliffside funicular railway.

Inland Towns and London

Other towns well worth a visit include the Georgian spa town of Tunbridge Wells with the famous Pantiles, and fascinating Lewes, the County Town of Sussex, home to Harveys brewery and the most spectacular fireworks celebrations every November the fifth. If you fancy a theatre trip then London is only an hour away by Train, and Crowborough station is a mere five minute stroll through the twitten by the side of the cottage. A little further afield there are National Trust properties in abundance, such as Scotney Castle with its fantastic early summer display of rhododendrons and azaleas, Sheffield Park and the nearby Bluebell Railway, or at Burwash there is Batemans, once the home of Rudyard Kipling.